Site of the Day

what a GREAT GREAT site!

 

the institute on money in state politics has a website that'll make even the sqeamish republicans sit back and enjoy.

democrat or republican?

today's letter comes to us from the DSM register.  can you guess what party the writer is?

i say he's republicon.  it may not be 'racism' in its definitive form, but it's something equally as disturbing.

Regarding Susan J. Aden's April 2 letter, "At Roosevelt Vs. Dowling, Fans Went Too Far": Anyone who has watched sporting events has seen increasing amounts of inappropriate behavior.

I have witnessed parents being ejected from a second-grade basketball tournament, parents confronting coaches in the dugout of a 10-year-olds' baseball game, a high-school coach (as a "fan") yell at an opposing player during a free-throw attempt, parents confront parents in parking lots, police called in to assist, "fans" of a public school chant "What would Jesus do?" to the students of a Christian school when they fell behind, "fans" refer to opposing players as Satan, "fans" mocking those in religious orders, etc.

Aden states there is a problem in a society where racism is not even recognized. Perhaps it was not recognized in the situation she cited because it was not there.

Perhaps when people stop labeling everything as black or white, then they will stop seeing racism in every instance.
-Mike Rowley,
Clive.

bush, clinton and intel.

two letter writers in today's DSM register.  both basically let bush off the hook with iraq, by bringing up clinton, and that HE had the same intelligence.  one even made it sound as if clinton was wrong for not doing what bush did.

 

dear God, why do you let people live in such warped realities?

 

of COURSE clinton had the same intel bush had.

 

but christ almighty, did clinton think the threat, what EVER it was, was ENOUGH to invade and waste almost 1600 american lives, and God only knows how many deaths are due to the 'superior forces' of America.

 

ya know what i think happened with the commission in how they drew up the report?  lemme draw a picture for you.

 

there's intel that says there MIGHT be wmd.

those people present it to their managers.

many managers say there's not enough to say there are wmd.  a few managers say there IS wmd

 

bush chose to spend 300 BILLION dollars (and counting), cost 1600 americans their lives, and wounded over 30,000 for life on the word of the few.  as long as there is one man who enabled bush, that's all he needed to think the world enabled him.

 

'sides, doesn't this president already have a dismal record on intel by allowing 9/11 to happen?  he shouldn't have been trusted in the first place to take this country into war.

no WONDER he is bush's man

on bolton's nomination to UN amb post at his confirmation hearings yesterday, fred kaplan from slate, sums it up rather nicely, and a perfect fit for someone in bush's corner:

In short, John Bolton came off as strikingly lacking in the credibility, values, and basic commitment that, especially these days, the job of U.N. ambassador requires.

 

democrat or republicon?

how can you tell someone's lying?

Wholesale prices for popular brand-name prescription drugs rose an average 7.1% in 2004, more than twice the general inflation rate, a new study commissioned by the nation's largest seniors lobby says.

...

Ken Johnson of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the trade group of brand-name drugmakers, called the study "exaggerated and misleading." He said the use of wholesale prices excludes factors such as rebates that could cut retail costs.

"Price data clearly shows prescription-drug prices have increased about 4% a year," Johnson said. He called that in line with growth in other health costs.

when they use words like 'exaggerated and misleading' and especially when those words come out of the mouth of a republicon.  i'd bet my life on the fact that mr johnson is a bush enabler.  so how could anybody believe him?

i disagree with the register

they opined today that we should step up efforts of oil exploration domestically, along with stepping up conserving efforts.

Given the world's growing thirst for oil and limited supplies, Congress needs to act. This is one of those instances when just about everyone has a slice of the answer. In the short term, as President Bush has advocated, the United States should step up domestic oil exploration and production. And, now and in the future, it also must step up conservation by encouraging the use of fuel-efficient cars. And it must develop alternative fuels.

i disagree that we should ruin tomorrow's habitat for our needs today.

byron york is a dork

byron york is on daily show.

 

i missed last night's showing, and i thank God Almighty that comedy central had the foresight and guts to run it 5 times a day, and i have to say, i would pay $100 to see jon stewart on stage.

 

but byron york is a dork.  his 'vast left-wing conspiracy' and how he's acting on the DS (notice how daily show and myname have the same initials.  anyway, here's a clip of what google returned about him:

National Review White House correspondent Byron York took issue with The Washington Post's characterization of findings in an ABC News-Washington Post poll that documented a significant drop in public support for President Bush's plan for Social Security. But in challenging the Post in a March 15 National Review Online column , York misrepresented the poll's data to claim that "solid majorities of those surveyed accept the president's underlying rationale for reform, and support his main proposal for that reform [private investment accounts funded by payroll taxes]."

A March 14 WashingtonPost.com article on the poll, which was released the previous day, reported that "[b]arely a third of the public approves of the way President Bush is dealing with Social Security and a majority says the more they hear about Bush's plan to reform the giant retirement system, the less they like it." When respondents were asked: "Overall, do you support or oppose Bush's proposals on Social Security? Do you support/oppose them strongly or somewhat?" 55 percent disapproved: 35 percent strongly and 20 percent somewhat.

 

my letter to the editor

Absolute power is goal of GOP

By DAVID SCHMIDT, Mason City

When someone mentions filibuster, what do you think? The Republicans in Congress are employing the "nuclear option" as a tactic to end filibusters.
They seem not concerned of ever returning to the minority, otherwise, they wouldn't ever pull such a stunt.

Sad to say, but this is next to the last step in the ultimate goal of the refurbished GOP to have absolute power.

Your vote in the next election will determine just how American you truly are.

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/04/12/opinion/doc425b555b9726c854135551.txt

 

when you start to be able to feel what it's like to "miss" your (now) reality.

is when you know the time is upon you.

i dont believe it

so far, i've heard a line that only i use:

twice!

one: "time is on my side"

and two: "there is no better proposal, just different"

dear lord.

i'm sittin here watching the council meeting on public access

and it's TRUE.... these people really are funnier than hell.

Delay Watch

The Tom DeLay Scandals
A score card

 

Middle Class 2004 concludes that Congress did not rise to the occasion when presented with the opportunity to support policies strengthening and expanding the middle class.
--Drum Major Institute

understatement of the week

Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut simply called for his resignation as majority leader: "Tom's conduct is hurting the Republican Party, is hurting this Republican majority, and it is hurting any Republican who is up for reelection."

 

--the LAT

there are two things important here: the number of troops, and the number of insurgents. that there are still the high number of insurgents has GOT to be saying something.

Initially about a quarter of U.S. forces in Iraq may be brought back, according to the NYT's senior military sources—meaning the number of troops would be reduced to about 105,000 from the current 142,000. The rest of the timeline is not clear, though no one is expecting a complete pullout anytime soon. "We're there militarily for the long haul," says Rhode Island Sen.
Jack Reed, a Democrat and former Army officer. The insurgency is still estimated to have between 12,000 and 20,000 "hard-core fighters," despite the hundreds or
even thousands of fighters killed or taken prisoner in the last year

the epitomy of bigotry shines through this 'folksy' character out in fresno who gives us the Quote of the Day:

"We are not against the homosexuals," said Hutchens, who flashes the twang of her Arkansas birth when she accents the "ho-mo" syllables. "We don't have a problem with what they want to do in private. We just don't want it in our faces."

from

and on the same page, we find a letter writer, who, obviously never went to school:

Although the media keep talking about the "nuclear option," there's nothing that explosive about the plans of Senate Republicans to end the filibusters against President Bush's judicial nominees.

The Republican plan to stop the blockade of the president's judicial nominees isn't nearly as radical as we've been led to believe. All it really involves is restoring constitutional order to a process that's been hijacked by the Senate liberals. By restoring the number of votes needed to confirm a nominee to a simple majority - not the supermajority required to end a filibuster - conservatives hope to stop the madness that has prevented 10 qualified judges from even getting an up-or-down vote over the past two years.

The bottom line: Restoring Senate tradition to end the minority's obstructionism must happen sooner rather than later. That's the message our senators need to hear from us.

-Rhonda Phillips,
Peru.

ms rhonda, why don't you just stay home and change the diapers on those babies of yours runnin the streets like piglets lost.

the letter of the day goes tooooooo:

Anyone who would buy a condo 50 feet from railroad tracks and then complain about train noise is about as dumb as someone who would buy a condo 50 feet from railroad tracks and then complain about train noise.

-Tom Sacco,
Des Moines.

what a brilliant idea!

from today's des moines register:

So here's a modest suggestion about how we could have universal public preschool without spending a whole lot more than we're spending now: As we add two years of school (or educational child care) at one end of the spectrum for 3- and 4-year-olds, lop two years off the other end for 17- and 18-year-olds. Have 10 grades in school instead of 12. Let kids graduate from high school at age 16.

A wildly impractical idea? Maybe, but consider the advantages. Kids grow up a lot faster these days. There's nothing in the high school curriculum that cannot be mastered by 16-year-olds. The course work could be condensed to provide 12 years of education in 10. A more intensive education might actually challenge kids more and keep them interested.

i sure hope vonage gets their act together, and soon.

cuz i sure cant take much more of this recklessness they seem to ooze. click2call duznt work. #5 auto redial duznt work. their tech people are clueless clusterfux. and they have the audacity to want 10 bux more a month for using software phones.

they got 60 days.

no piggy bank in America is safe from these pricks

As Victims' Rights Week begins, victims' advocates are seeking help from Hawaii's congressional delegation to restore money intended to help victims of violent crimes.

The Victims of Crime Act, established by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, collects fees and fines from federal criminal defendants and uses them for grants for compensation and services for victims locally. Congress caps how much money can be spent each fiscal year to keep a reserve in case less money is collected the next year. The current cap is $625 million.

The Bush administration wants to take away $1.2 billion dollars in reserves that would have been sitting in the fund at the beginning of fiscal year 2007 and divert that money, as well as any new revenues, into the government's general fund.

 

west hawaii today

DELAY WATCH

i swear i'm gonna register that .... i know, i keep saying it everytime i post something like that, but fuck.  this guy, along with our very own turd steve king, need to be banished from public service forever.  for they have proven themselve incapable of handling the responsibility the offices of elected officials requires.  both are grade A pricks.

 

from prnewswire:

    NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- At lunch at his downtown Washington restaurant last week, Jack Abramoff -- the once Washington superlobbyist who is now the target of a Justice Department criminal probe -- lashed out in frustration and was noticeably caustic about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, reports Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the April 18 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 11). "Everybody is lying," Abramoff told a former colleague. "Those S.O.B.s," Abramoff said about DeLay and his staffers, according to his luncheon companion. "DeLay knew everything. He knew all the details." There are e-mails and records that will implicate others, Abramoff said.

the newsweek article

Quote for the Day

comes to us from Nera Amaya, via the LAT:

"The church has to come down from heaven to the reality on Earth.  It's not filling my spiritual needs, and I am looking for an alternative."

Quote for the Day

comes to us from Nera Amaya, via the LAT:

"The church has to come down from heaven to the reality on Earth.  It's not filling my spiritual needs, and I am looking for an alternative."

an observation

if America is really, like the republicons like to scream every chance they get, on the road to more religious-ism in our daily lives, then why is it that far fewer are being ordained as priests than are dying?

headline of the Day

comes to us from the Los Angeles Times:

Millions Said Going to Waste in Iraq Utilities

 

A coalition memo says water, sewage and power facilities rebuilt with U.S. funds are falling into disrepair. Iraqis say they need more money.

the headline is misleading however,  as the real problem isn't the iraqis, it's the Americans who have continued to show their high disregard of doing things the correct way, not the 'right' way.

 

the sunday morning thought

i cant help but believe that congress is graspin at straws in their effort to fight terrorism.  why you ask?  well, because they're passing all these laws that they think will give us an edge in catching these criminals, i mean terrorists.

 

these new 'anti-terrorism' laws have so much anti-American flavor in them, that you would rightly wonder if they were passed by the American congress.  6 years ago, who would have ever thought that we needed to give up liberties to fight terrorists?  6 years ago, who would have ever thought that we needed to allow the government unbridaled power to snoop into our daily lives to fight terrorists?

 

probably, because 6 years ago, we DIDN'T NEED TO on account of everything we were already doing was working.  why do you think 9/11 happened on bush's watch and not clintons?  of course they tried, but clinton made sure they didn't try again.  no, they waited for an opening, and bush gave it to them because they would be giving bush alllll he could ever dream for.

 

anyway, just my sunday morning thought.

is it, or isn't it?

out of one side of their mouths we hear that we're enjoying a 'boooming' and 'robust' economy, while out of the other side of the administration's mouths,:we get stuff like this:

"If money were not a consideration, it's a program that would have very broad-based support, but money is a consideration," he said.
attribution

so which is it?  do we have an economy that's crankin, or do we have an economy where we have to act like cold-hearted misers?

 

oh wait!!  we have an economy that's crankin AND cold hearted misers holding the purse strings.

you mean, he LIED?

on the iraqi mismanagement of construction funds ...  also from the LAT:

The shifting of money also will help cover an estimated $5-billion shortfall in the Iraqi national budget. Insurgent attacks and the failure of reconstruction efforts in the oil sector have resulted in lower than anticipated oil revenues, making it impossible for Iraq to maintain and operate U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts.

The need for such funds explicitly contradicts a prediction then-Defense Deputy Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz made before Congress in 2003.

incompetence defined

a continuing series of blunders by this administration in the handling of the reconstruction money congress allocated for iraq gives us another insight into why the bushite people have mismanaged billions of dollars, and God only knows how many lives would have been saved, IF ONLY....  from the LAT:

Bill Taylor, who heads the civilian reconstruction management office in Iraq, which wrote the report, said remaining funds would increasingly be focused on "systems" rather than individual projects. Iraqis have been frustrated, for instance, that new water treatment plants have been built without new water lines, resulting in millions of gallons of clean water that has no way to reach homes.

the 2nd anniversary of the removal of saddam

i wonder if these protests are going to wake anybody up.  i doubt it.  the people who need to be woken up have had hundreds of chances and opportunities to do so, but still remain ignorant to what is going on.

"Tomorrow will be the second black anniversary of the Iraq occupation," (sadr) said during the sermon. "We have seen nothing but bloodshed, destruction, pillage and thievery before the very eyes of the Iraqi people, who are looking on as their sons are butchered, detained, and the state funds looted and taken outside the country by the thieves who have taken over."

 

hypocrisy so thick, you can cut it with a dull knife

and it comes as no surprise that it is george w. bush who again drops all pretense of being fair and balanced by making sure this quote gets into every news article written by those who were lucky enough to advance to the front of the plane.  proper checks and balances?  how can that be when we have one party rule?

"I believe in an independent judiciary," he said. "I believe in proper checks and balances. And we'll continue to put judges on the bench who strictly and faithfully interpret the Constitution."

attribution

 

the irony of the day? goes to slate, who caught the seating arrangement at the pope's funeral:

The LAT says the leaders were arrayed according to a complex formula that took into account the number of years a country has had diplomatic ties with the Vatican. The result: President Bush sat not far from Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, whom he ignored, along with Syria's Bashar Assad. Israeli President Moshe Katsav, however, shook the hands of both, and talked with Khatami about the city in Iran where they both were born. "Maybe today will make us hope of a future of peace, not of conflict and hatred," Khatami was quoted as saying in an Italian newspaper, according to the LAT and NYT.

i wish the hell i could have watched the funeral now, just to look at the face of bush when israeli president showed some class and shook the hands of 'soon-to-be'? enemies? it had to be about as priceless as the art inside the chapel.

ugly companies

wonder how companies can be ugly?

 

because the leave their telephone number off their receipts.

Democrat or Republican

take the test.  do you think the letter writer is a democrat, or a republican/con?

Dave Eyman's April 7 letter regarding parents teaching children how to drive got the facts turned around. The comment regarding children taught to drive by parents "killing people" was made by another legislator. I voted in favor of the bill, and I resent the implication that only teachers can teach our children anything worthwhile.
-State Rep. Ralph Watts,
Adel.

we have two letter winners today

The Register's March 31 article on building cars to run on fuel cells cites the fact that DaimlerChrysler AG is testing 100 fuel-cell vehicles around the world ("Automakers Announce Fuel Cell Ventures").

General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. also have models running. The article concludes with a comment that Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says we may be approaching commercialization within 15 years.

We went to the moon in nine years. NASA had nothing like the Saturn V rocket, and many of the materials needed for the rocket-propulsion system weren't known in 1961.

A president sets his priorities. President Kennedy wanted to get to the moon in a decade. The Presidents Bush have now spent something like a trillion dollars trying to secure oil in the Middle East - showing their priorities.

For fuel-cell cars, the 2005 U.S. budget will spend about 1 percent of the cost of our oil war in Iraq.
-Mike Montross,
Winterset.

attribution

The Letter of the Day

After we build the new Polk County jail, with drug abusers all tucked in, then what? Is the plan to lock them up, and this will be the form of treatment? I would like to see the plan of action

The March 30 Register reported that "Nine of 10 who complete treatment stay out of trouble." This statement alone shows that some of the people involved have no clue as to the power of drugs.

Treatment is the first step, but if a drug addict is to go back on the streets, they also need help to "begin" again. Hopelessness as to how you are going to live is one of the major causes of relapse. After the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony, landing a $6-an-hour job with a paycheck that won't come for a month while living in a shelter isn't much to hold on to.

A new jail. A treatment program we know nothing about, and we're on our way to a drug-free society.

I wish it were that simple.
-Kimberly Shursen,
Clive.

attribution

Quote for the Day

 "We all want to see terrorists brought to justice. But it's not good enough to punish just anyone, even if it's the wrong person. Totalitarian regimes declare people enemies of the state and execute them at will. In democracies with constitutions, labeling people "evil-doers" and "enemy combatants" isn't proof enough."

--Rekha Basu
attribution

when i was snoopin around and thinkn about getting a mac, i calld my best friend, and only syster, manny parrish, otherwise known as taffy. and in some circles, manessa.

the subject of macs quickly turned into a story that ends with my shivering and quaking in my shoes. literally.

wanna know more?

go HERE.

there's bushite people all over the world

including mexico.  from the LAT:

 The proceedings this week against Lopez Obrador are not about the rule of law. They're about kicking a popular left-wing front-runner out of the presidential race. As a result of shrewd patronage politics and savvy political positioning, Lopez Obrador is the most popular politician in the country. That makes him dangerous to an array of vested interests and explains why he has so many powerful enemies obsessed with bringing him down, including President Vicente Fox.

As a result of a political crusade disguised as a legal issue, Lopez Obrador is caught in a battle for his political life. The attorney general's office has accused him of ignoring a restraining order issued by the courts and moving forward with construction of a road to a hospital on land whose ownership has been contested. Now that the Chamber of Deputies has stripped him of his immunity from prosecution, he faces a potential prison sentence and could be deemed ineligible to run for the presidency while his case goes through the system.

 

 

wow, i cant reach blogger in IE but i can in firefox.

what the fuck is going on dammit, i'm getting tired of this shit not knowing why there's such so many issues.

a soldier's story

speaks volumes of how these crooks mismanaged their own friggin war.  they don't care about whether these kids live or die.  it's sickening.

 

 

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky Army National Guard soldiers in Iraq are being put at risk because their trucks are unreliable, poorly armored and lack protective glass, according to a guardsman stationed in Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Brad Rogers said in e-mails yesterday that Kentucky National Guardsman Sgt. James A. Sherrill might have survived a bomb attack Sunday if his truck had protective glass, known as ballistic windows.

"We have great people and great leadership. I just want answers on why we can't get better equipment with full armor including ballistic windows," Rogers said in an e-mail to The Courier-Journal.

"They need to stop these missions until we get these things."

atribution

 

DELAYWATCHY

DELAY WATCH DELAY WATCH

 

GOD DAMMIT, I'M REGSTERING THE FUCKER

 

it just keeps piling on and on and on and on......  from abcnews:

April 6, 2005 — A Washington lobbyist under federal investigation for his lobbying activities arranged a lavish overseas trip to the island of Saipan for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, over the New Year's holiday in 1997.

DeLay, his wife and daughter, and several aides, stayed for free at a beachfront resort.

.

calling for an investigation is like pissin in the wind

more on how the republicons rule...  from teh rocky mountain news:

U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar has asked for a federal and a state investigation into whether a Republican Party staffer should be charged with impersonating a Secret Service agent at a Denver town hall meeting on Social Security held by President Bush last month.

 

"I supported laws as (state) Attorney General, to keep people from impersonating law enforcement officers," said Salazar, D-Colorado, on Wednesday.

 

"We don't know the facts here, and I think in order to determine whether a prosecution is warranted, an investigation should occur first. The investigation may lead to the conclusion that nothing happened here, but the investigation may result in a conclusion that laws have been violated and somebody has to be punished."

 

On Tuesday, Salazar sent a letter asking for an investigation to Dennis Schindel, with the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of the Treasury, and to Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrisey.

 

The request for an investigation comes one day after U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., joined U.S. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., in asking the House Government Reform Committee to investigate several recent incidents in which citizens were removed from presidential events in Colorado, Arizona and North Dakota because of their political beliefs.

 

 

fukn blogger and its wsywyg editor. cut & paste jus aint right .... but i'm in a hurry.

A piece inside the Journal points out that right after World War
II, U.S. war-crimes tribunals prosecuted Japanese guards not only for torture
but also for merely humiliating American prisoners. One guard
who mainly forced POWs to salute non-stop for 30 minutes was sentenced to 12
years. "Extreme brutality or serious injury to the victim is not a necessary
element" for conviction, wrote one judge. Defense lawyers for Gitmo
detainees—and human-rights lawyers—are gleefully pointing to the convictions.
But the military argues there's no parallel, since the detainees now are
"unlawful combatants." (The WSJ adds some background in Web-only sidebars.)

ya smell that?

do you ever get the feeling that when you're reading a story, and there's something you're not being told?  i got that when i read about the 16 victims in afghanistan.

 

here, see for yourself:

The Chinook went down around 2:30 p.m. about 100 miles southwest of Kabul in a desert plain near the city of Ghazni, she said. Eighteen crew members and passengers were listed on the flight manifest, 16 of whom have been confirmed dead, according to officials. The two others remained unaccounted for when recovery operations were called off for the night.

The names of the dead are being withheld pending notification of their families, officials said. According to Moore, military investigators had not determined the nationalities or the military branches of those killed.

The Associated Press quoted the police chief of Ghazni, Abdul Rahman Sarjang, as saying that all of the dead were wearing U.S. military uniforms.

Moore said there was "no indication" the crash was caused by enemy fire. The second helicopter arrived at Bagram without incident.

they were all uniformed, and the quoted no indication of enemy fire, yet the 2nd helo didn't try to help?  and why is this story coming by the AP with quotes from a POLICE OFFICER???

can ya smell the bushite stench?

the Quote of the Day

wow, i'm picking up more Quotes today than i have in a long long time.

 

this time, it's the post who picks up one from an army staff sgt:

 "It's all about perception, to convince the American public that everything is going as planned and we're right on schedule to be out of here," said one adviser, Army Staff Sgt. Craig E. Patrick, 40, a reservist from Rock Island, Ill. "I mean, they can [mislead] the American people, but they can't [mislead] us. These guys are not ready."

and i'm bolding that on purpose.

and we have a WINNER!

of the Daily No-Poop Letter Award:

 

 

It's comforting to know our beloved local grocer is helping us all understand what everyone else is thinking and talking about. Dahl's ban on non-English conversation by employees will at least calm the fretting from self-centered customers who think they deserve to eavesdrop on any conversation around them. How appropriate a policy given that the world will probably lose half its spoken languages over the next century. If everyone would just speak English we wouldn't be bothered with all those quirky languages us Americans don't understand.

It reminds me of a fitting joke. What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. And what do you call someone who speaks one language? American.

Dahl's' insensitive reaction to narrow-minded customers who are so paranoid to think that whenever someone is speaking another language in their presence that they are being made fun of, may just be the most American policy in the workplace.
- William Mikesell, Clive

attribution

this one takes the cake for the most eye-opening statement of the day. it's coming from the wsj, and since i refuse to give them my money, i'm relying on slate to provide the quote:

"A third of party members polled said Democrats should prevent Republicans from "going too far in pushing their agenda."

i swear, i'm gonna register delaywatch.

how many is that now, JUST TODAY??? from abcnews

April 6, 2005 — A Washington lobbyist under federal investigation for his lobbying activities arranged a lavish overseas trip to the island of Saipan for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, over the New Year's holiday in 1997.

DeLay, his wife and daughter, and several aides, stayed for free at a beachfront resort.